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- 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19
two months. A team of faculty and students from five Harvard schools attended the Kumbh Mela to learn from the phenomenon. The festival was a planning, organizational, financial, and spiritual success-in stark contrast to the understood concept of India as unable to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
the firm's business practices. We have built a simple classification system that when combined with an "assessment" model could yield powerful diagnostics on how to migrate and manage a company's portfolio of CSR programs.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
leaders who managed to navigate their organizations through unpredictable social, political, and regulatory environments. To help fill this gap, Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
maximize the gains and minimize the risks, but all three have been in short supply in Argentina, especially, for decades. Q: What role did the Business History Initiative interviews done with Latin American business leaders for the Creating Emerging Markets View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
275,000 people. The case provides an update on TopCoder's growth and resulting changes in its platform and business model, specifically, its decision to virtualize the project management role. Issues related... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
Managing Churn to Maximize Profits with Aurélie Lemmens, an associate professor at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management. They propose a new method to target customers that potentially boosts a company's profits in a big way—by... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
it may become part of a larger debate in 2006 about added pressures on managers to produce short-term earnings regardless of the impact on the long-term health of the business. In his annual year-end letter to directors, Martin Lipton, a... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
Industries - 2006 (TN) Harvard Business School Note 207-097 No abstract available. The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (D) Harvard Business School Supplement 207-087 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
manufacturing. And thanks to the war, Doriot has gained a lifetime of experience in organizing and managing new ventures in a pressure-cooker environment. It is not surprising, then, that the former head of the New England Council's... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
supposed to be bad, and there was little debate about what companies or managers could do about it. For me this just sounded too simplistic. Moreover, the focus on national laws led to policy recommendations that were sometimes too... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3
managerial performance, found that managers higher in metacognitive cultural intelligence (CQ) were rated as more effective in intercultural creative collaboration by managers from other cultures. Study 2, a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016
on riskier projects and strategies. But risk management must overcome severe individual and organizational biases that prevent managers and employees from thinking deeply and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
unite partners' objectives for creating a flexible supply chain; benchmark performance against other retailers; and evaluate and manage new technologies. Raman and Fisher provide specific, detailed metrics and techniques that can be used... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12
years, I believe I have a clear sense of the state of corporate governance in the United States and in much of Western Europe. Not surprisingly, my crystal ball for predicting future developments and demands on boards cannot be so clear. The Language of Global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
National Geographic Genographic project (Inga Ness), Trendwatcher (Gerald Nanninga), and Wikipedia (Adnan Younis Lodhi and Sameer Kamat). In spite of the advantages of putting customers to work, a number of cautions were raised as well.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
that helps businesses profit from making their buildings carbon neutral. (Not to put too fine a point on it, Teach For America was founded by a woman, and Carbon Lighthouse by two men.) The researchers then developed a five-point commercialization scale, ranging from... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
(diamonds) and have managed this resource extremely well. Working with De Beers, the government has consistently and strategically limited its sales of diamonds, striving to keep prices steady over the long run rather than maximizing... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
employees. Yet with several important R&D projects still under development, and capacity needed in factories for many more months, Nokia's board and leaders wanted to avoid the mistakes the company had made in a plant shutdown in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
the firm to shift from a "product and waste" mentality to a "product and product" mentality, and thereby actively manage the quantities of both products to maximize profit. Conditions in the two markets determine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
Watkins The best negotiators also work to foster organizational learning, both during and after a negotiation. They pay careful attention to managing the team learning process, establishing clear roles and responsibilities for observation... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins